durchtrocknen
[ˈdʊʁçˌtʁɔknən]
The verdict
“durchtrocknen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich ganz und gar von Feuchtigkeit befreien
Corpus desk
Index DE-durchtrocknen · durchtrocknen · German
durchtrocknen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durchtrocknen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdʊʁçˌtʁɔknən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „durchtrocknen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
durchtrocknen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈdʊʁçˌtʁɔknən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich ganz und gar von Feuchtigkeit befreien".
Zero misspellings are on record for durchtrocknen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is durchtrocknen, spelled D-U-R-C-H-T-R-O-C-K-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich ganz und gar von Feuchtigkeit befreien
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durchtrocknen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Ton sollte bei dieser Technik zunächst durchtrocknen, bevor man die einzelnen Farbschichten der Lasur aufträgt.
„Mich wundert allerdings, dass die nachgemalten Stellen schon getrocknet sind, denn Ölfarbe braucht normalerweise länger als einen Tag, um richtig durchzutrocknen.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.